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13 Politicians as Disney Villains

Barack Obama Disney

No one really likes politicians, and while not all of them are actually villains, it’s always easy to fit them into the part. It’s quite obvious that Middle Eastern artist Saint Hoax thinks about them that way, which gave birth to this awesome gallery of Obama, Putin and others portrayed as Disney Villains.

Barack Obama (USA) as Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog

 

Vladimir Putin (Russia) as Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Nicolas Sarkozy (Used to be France) as Jafar from Aladdin

Kim Jong-un (North Korea) as The Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland

Recep Tayyip Erdo?an (Turkey) as Hades from Hercules

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia as Governor Ratcliffe from Pocahontas

Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) as Lady Tremaine from Cinderella

Enrique Peña Nieto (Mexico) as Gaston from Beauty and the Beast

Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela) as Captain Hook from Peter Pan

Pauline Marois (Quebec) as Ursula from The Little Mermaid

Margaret Thatcher as Yzma from The Emperor’s New Groove

Hillary Clinton as The Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Sarah Palin as Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians

 

This is the artist’s gallery

For more of similar stuff, check out this geek art making fun of famous dictators or this similarly geeky Jesus artwork.

Google, Amazon, Facebook and more confirmed as members of the Internet Association

Pitching itself as the first trade alliance to represent the concerns of the online economy, the Internet Association lobbying group has just confirmed its member companies and policy platform. As suspected Amazon, Facebook, eBay, and Google are joined by other large tech firms, under the leadership of Capitol Hill advisor Michael Beckerman, to form the umbrella public policy organization. Citing its three main areas of focus as protecting internet freedom, fostering innovation and economic growth, and empowering users, the Internet Association will represent regulatory and political interests of its member companies, and their employees. There is no word on what the first freedom or innovation to benefit from the associations collaborative-clout will be, but while we wait to find out, you can lobby on the source link for the Mission- and Purpose-statement containing press release.

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Google, Amazon, Facebook and more confirmed as members of the Internet Association

Pitching itself as the first trade alliance to represent the concerns of the online economy, the Internet Association lobbying group has just confirmed its member companies and policy platform. As suspected Amazon, Facebook, eBay, and Google are joined by other large tech firms, under the leadership of Capitol Hill advisor Michael Beckerman, to form the umbrella public policy organization. Citing its three main areas of focus as protecting internet freedom, fostering innovation and economic growth, and empowering users, the Internet Association will represent regulatory and political interests of its member companies, and their employees. There is no word on what the first freedom or innovation to benefit from the associations collaborative-clout will be, but while we wait to find out, you can lobby on the source link for the Mission- and Purpose-statement containing press release.

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Internet Association to lobby Washington, may tout Amazon, Facebook, Google among its ranks

Internet Association to lobby Washington, may tout Amazon, Facebook, Google among its ranks

Political lobbying is often a mixed bag at best. Still, there's a cautious amount of optimism surrounding the Internet Association, a soon-to-start lobbying group that plans to advocate for an "open, innovative and free" internet among US politicians. The unsurprising (if well-intentioned) aim is to prevent another SOPA or PIPA with more formal opposition than even the Internet Defense League can manage. Who'll be pulling the strings is nebulous -- officially, the Association will only say that former Congressional staff director Michael Beckerman is at the helm until a formal September 19th launch. That internet openness must extend to some very leaky representatives, however, as the National Journal, AFP and Reuters all claim that Amazon, eBay, Facebook and Google are charter members. None of them are talking on the record; we certainly wouldn't be shocked if the roster is real, knowing how much Google and other partners have fought takedown laws that would bypass much of the normal legal system. We're hoping that whatever manifests a genuinely rational counterbalance to media and telecom influences that often aren't very interested in protecting internet-only business models or due process.

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